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NIGHTINGALE, Florence (1820-1910). Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and What it Is Not. New York: D. Appleton, 1860. 8vo. Publisher’s full brown pebbled cloth, boards double-ruled in blind, front board lettered in gilt, yellow coated endleaves (binding worn, soiled, front hinge just starting, contemporary ownership signature on fp., text toned, soiled, worn, several gutters overopened). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Nightingale was a nurse during the Crimean War, and improved nursing methods for patients and nurses alike. She founded a nursing school in 1860 and is credited for opening that profession to women.